Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Most Beautiful Woman

[Excerpts from The God of Small Things; picture by Mayank Austen Soofi]

On that skyblue December day, her wild, curly hair had escaped in wisps in the car wind. Her shoulders in her sleeveless sari blouse shone as though they had been polished with a high-wax shoulder polish. Sometimes she was the most beautiful woman that Estha and Rahel had ever seen. And sometimes she wasn't.